CT 53, 018 (P313433)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 018 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313433 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the kin]g, my lord: [your servant], Aššur-hamatu'a. Good [health] to the king, my lord. May [Aššu]r and Ištar bless the king, [my lo]rd. |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66–o 1010 | Concerning the statues of the king for the temple of Ištar of [Arbela], the work on them has been done. [We] have now delivered the copper for the [...]. |
| Obverse [12:16] o 1313–o 1616 | [The ...] of the king should give [... to the chie]f victualler. [And should] the chief victualler say: "It is no good," [... will w]rite [......]. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | I keep hearing [...]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | The [chief vic]tualler should give [......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] you (pl.) have not said. Let the king, my lord, hear [my ...]. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—ha-mat-u-a | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 4 | {[d}aš]-⸢šur⸣ {d}15 a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 5 | ⸢lik⸣-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU NU—MAN-MEŠ-ni NU—MAN-MEŠ-ni ⸢ša⸣ [o] | |
| 7 | ⸢E₂⸣—{d}15 ša {uru}[arba-il₃] | |
| 8 | [dul]-lu-šu₂-nu ⸢e⸣-[pi-iš] | |
| 9 | [u₂]-⸢ma⸣-a URUDU-MEŠ [x x x] | |
| 10 | [nu]-⸢us⸣-se-bi-⸢la⸣ [x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x] zu ⸢qi x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ bil ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 13 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ al ⸢ša LUGAL x⸣ kas | |
| 14 | [a-na {lu₂]}⸢GAL⸣—da-ni-bat {lu₂]}⸢GAL⸣—da-ni-bat lid-din | |
| 15 | [u₃ {lu₂}GAL]—da-ni-bat {lu₂}GAL]—da-ni-bat ma-a la-a ṭa-ba | |
| 16 | [x x x x x x]-⸢šap⸣-pa-ra | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x as-sa]-⸢na⸣-am-me | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] hu ⸢x⸣ | |
| 4' | {[lu₂}GAL—da]-ni-bat {[lu₂}GAL—da]-ni-bat ⸢lid⸣-din | |
| 5' | [x x x]-⸢ni⸣ la taq-ba-a-ni | |
| 6' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ liš-me | |
Sources & licences
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